Golf Swing Training
April 23, 2010 by admin
Filed under Tips & Suggestion
Golf swing training, as anyone who has spent any time at all with the sport knows, is critical to establishing the habits that will produce a better golf game for you. Golf swing training is also more than just going out and hitting the ball.
On the contrary, golf swing training starts before you ever put a golf club in your hand. It starts by knowing how a good golf swing should be performed, and how you can go about performing that swing, over and over again, with great consistency.
One good method to get you going is to start with just one hand (your right hand if you are right-hand dominant). Set up the shot as you normally would, grip the club as you normally would using two hands, and then remove your left hand.
Then practice, slowly, going through your swing with just your right hand and arm.
As you go through this process, you will want to pay attention to a few things. First, you will notice that it is difficult to maintain your balance. This should give you a clue as to how important it is that all of the parts of your body involved in the swing contribute in one way or another.
In fact, the left arm is one of the most passive parts of the body during the swing. You might expect that if it is removed from the sequence, that there would be little effect. But there is, and it illustrates how the body parts work as a unit during the swing, and thus how important it is to keep them coordinated.
Continue to work with just one hand to hit the ball. Don’t worry about how well hit it is, focus on keeping your body (minus your left arm), coordinated as you move through the swing.
The next golf swing training tip involves mimicking a real backswing. Grip the club with both hands, and practice just the back swing portion of the swing. Do this slowly. Again, what you are after here is insight into how your body is moving and performing. Go slow, and think at each point along the way about whether your wrists, arms, feet, knees, hips, back, shoulders, arms and head are where they are supposed to be.
Be on the lookout for places where your body wants to move out of proper alignment. For example, one common swing error involves pivoting the feet. Another involves bending at the waist. All of these errors will be accentuated when you go through the motions slowly, which is what makes this process such effective golf swing training.
Make sure that your backswing extends all the way back. Your club should be parallel to the ground when you are fully extended back. Then go through your downswing and follow through, again, looking out for areas where your body wants to get out of proper alignment.
Golf swing training can take a lot of different forms, but this slow-mo through the swing process is a good way to identify the places where your body is working against your drive for a great swing.
